The new rule will allow screeners to focus on finding explosive device components and other things that can be "catastrophic" to a plane, speed trips through security checkpoints and "address the hassle factor, " Pistole said.
He questioned evidence by defense attorneys who claimed the plane's speed was slower than what prosecutors contend.
The radio transmits a plane's speed, heading, altitude and GPS coordinates to all other planes similarly equipped, allowing each to map the traffic around it.
Robert Duarte, an expert on some instruments in the jet, questioned evidence by defense attorneys who claimed the plane's speed was slower than what prosecutors contend.
Its four turboprops provide it with a cruise speed of 0.72 mach at altitudes of up to 40, 000 feet and the plane has excellent low speed handling characteristics needed for paratroopers and load dropping.
This has to do with a plane's dive speed and ability to refuel in complex situations and at high speeds.
Any plane that flies past the speed of sound creates a sonic boom, which often results in a major noise disturbance over close-by areas.
Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.
Despite a fuel-saving concept the plane is designed to go at a speed of 450 mph.
If tests go as planned, it will be the first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound on a fuel mix that is half biomass.
The software in the four-seater Piper Warrior light plane will allow Mr Cunningham to receive constant updates on the plane's height, position and speed at the touch of a button.
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And a red-faced Boeing was forced to withdraw its Sonic Cruiser, a plane intended to fly at near the speed of sound, after airlines rejected the idea that passengers would pay a hefty premium for such rapid transit.
The aircraft's transponder, which identifies the plane and relays details such as altitude and speed to controllers, stopped transmitting.
It's the fastest passenger plane in the world, with a top speed of 700 miles an hour.
"Our main version is a spontaneous move by the stabiliser into an extreme position that caused the plane to make a steep climb at high speed, " Mr Chernov told Russian NTV television.
This speed played a role in keeping the plane in Polish government service.
Part of that need will be met in the future by a new generation of rotorcraft, including the revolutionary MV-22 tiltrotor that combines the vertical agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing plane.
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As the plane neared the ground at a much-too-fast speed, passengers were warned to brace for impact.
The disk severed all the plane's hydraulic lines, virtually cutting off all steering and speed control.
The plane, carrying around 60 people, was travelling at a "very low speed" on the Heathrow runway when the flight was aborted, according to a BA spokeswoman.
Upon reaching a speed known as V2 (a calculation based on thrust, weight aboard the plane, airport elevation and outside temperature), pull back on the yoke, and away you go.
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